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Re: snap-affiliates

Originally Posted by Svault

I've installed this program. Out of the box, it seems to be working as promised. Need to have some knowledge of html & php to get this working properly.

Some pointers:
- need to update terms/policy page for referral
- need to add language files
- once you upload, look for the referral page at: http://yourwebsite.com/referrer_signup
- using EZ pages, create a link to that page.

Good luck everyone!! Thanks to the author for the program. I've been looking for a free affiliate program for a very long time!!

Did you fully integrate this mod into your website? Your last post on this topic was some time ago and the thread seems dead now.

I have gotten affiliate snap to work on my site (1.3.9d... still tweaking the appearance and emails though.

1- After you copy all the files over (after checking them against your existing files-->there were more files than were listed in the install instructions) and run the SQL I created a link to the main page using "index.php?main_page=referrer_main"

2- The files includes/languages/english/referrer_main.php
includes/languages/english/referrer_main.php
includes/languages/english/referrer_main.php needed to be in my overides folder to get rid of the NAVBAR_TITLE issue.

3- Banners can be inserted by editing the includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_referrer_tools_default.php file lines 118 to 127. You can change the dimensions of the images here as well to reflect your banner sizes.

3.1- Copy your banner images into the includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/images/referrers/ folder. Name them according to the file above e.g. ref.160.600.jpg for a 160x600 image, ref.468.60.jpg for the 468x60 image, etc. and comment out the ones you are not using.

4- I was having issues with the email to notify the admin about a new sign-up not working. If you have ADMIN|EMAIL OPTIONS|EMAIL FRIENDLY ERRORS set to TRUE then you might get the same error. You can edit the includes/modules/pages/referrer_signup/header.php file line 56 from admin_level = 1 to admin_level = 0 or you can do what I did and create a second admin user called Affiliate Manager with my affiliate_manager@mydomain.com email address and left it at Admin_Level = 1

5- I've been changing all references to referrer to affiliate

I'm trying to get the includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_referrer_tools_default.php to correctly form the emails sent to the affiliates upon approval. The email body currently reads

Re: snap-affiliates

Originally Posted by thelawman

4- I was having issues with the email to notify the admin about a new sign-up not working. If you have ADMIN|EMAIL OPTIONS|EMAIL FRIENDLY ERRORS set to TRUE then you might get the same error. You can edit the includes/modules/pages/referrer_signup/header.php file line 56 from admin_level = 1 to admin_level = 0 or you can do what I did and create a second admin user called Affiliate Manager with my affiliate_manager@mydomain.com email address and left it at Admin_Level = 1

Should have proof read...

4- I was having issues with the email to notify the admin about a new sign-up not working. If you have ADMIN|EMAIL OPTIONS|EMAIL FRIENDLY ERRORS set to TRUE then you might get the same error. You can edit the includes/modules/pages/referrer_signup/header.php file line 35 from admin_level = 1 to admin_level = 0 and in /admin/referrers.php or you can do what I did and create a second admin user called Affiliate Manager with my affiliate_manager@mydomain.com email address and left it at Admin_Level = 1.

4.1- Change line 56 from "admin/referrers.php?referrer=" to reflect what you renamed your admin folder.

I'm trying to get the admin/referrers.php to correctly form the emails sent to the affiliates upon approval. The email body currently reads

"Your MYDOMAIN affiliate account has been approved!

$EMAIL_MESSAGE_HTML

Any help on how to fix the emails would be appreciated.

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